What We Do
Specialist Services. Delivered with Discretion.
From rigorous due diligence to covert surveillance, every service we provide is conducted with the highest standards of professionalism, legal compliance, and confidentiality. Explore our full range of corporate intelligence and investigation capabilities below.
Due Diligence
Rigorous background verification for informed decisions.
In today's complex business environment, making decisions without thorough due diligence carries significant risk. ODM Legal Services provides comprehensive due diligence investigations designed to give corporate clients, investors, and legal professionals the verified intelligence they need before entering into partnerships, acquisitions, or contractual arrangements.
Our due diligence service covers corporate background checks, directorship history, financial standing, litigation history, regulatory compliance, and reputational assessment. We investigate individuals and entities across the UK and internationally, delivering structured, evidenced reports that support confident decision-making.
All investigations are conducted in strict compliance with applicable legislation, including GDPR and relevant data protection frameworks, ensuring that the intelligence we gather is both legally obtained and admissible where required.
Corporate Intelligence
Competitor and reputational intelligence to protect your business.
Understanding the landscape in which your business operates is essential to protecting and advancing your interests. ODM Legal Services provides discreet corporate intelligence services that give clients a clear, accurate picture of competitors, counterparties, and market actors.
Our corporate intelligence capabilities include competitor intelligence gathering, reputational risk assessment, supply chain due diligence, and strategic intelligence reporting. We work with businesses, legal teams, and risk professionals to identify threats, verify claims, and uncover information that may not be publicly available.
Every engagement is handled with absolute discretion. Our investigators operate within the bounds of UK law and industry codes of practice, ensuring that all intelligence is gathered ethically and in a manner that protects our clients' interests and legal standing.
Asset Location & Tracing
Global asset and individual tracing for enforcement and recovery.
When debts go unpaid, judgments go unenforced, or individuals cannot be located, ODM Legal Services provides specialist asset location and tracing services to support recovery and enforcement action. We work with law firms, insolvency practitioners, and corporate clients to identify and locate assets and individuals across the UK and internationally.
Our asset tracing service covers the identification of property, vehicles, bank accounts, business interests, and other assets held by individuals or entities. We also provide individual tracing — locating persons of interest for the purposes of legal proceedings, debt recovery, or reconnection.
All tracing work is conducted in full compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR, and the Credit Services Association Code of Practice where applicable. We provide detailed, evidenced reports suitable for use in legal proceedings.
Tracing
Locating individuals and entities across the UK and internationally.
When individuals cannot be located — whether for the purposes of legal proceedings, debt recovery, reconnection, or probate — ODM Legal Services provides specialist tracing investigations to establish current whereabouts. We work with law firms, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, and private clients to locate persons of interest quickly and discreetly.
Our tracing service covers a broad range of subjects: debtors and judgment debtors, missing beneficiaries, absent witnesses, estranged family members, former employees, and individuals who have deliberately sought to evade contact. We utilise a combination of proprietary databases, electoral and public records, credit reference data, open-source intelligence, and field enquiries to build a current, verified address profile.
All tracing work is conducted in full compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR, and the Credit Services Association Code of Practice where applicable. We do not undertake tracing for purposes that fall outside legitimate legal, financial, or welfare grounds. Results are delivered in a confidential written report, with source documentation suitable for use in legal proceedings where required.
Covert Observations
Discreet surveillance and monitoring conducted by experienced investigators.
There are circumstances in which direct, covert observation is the most effective means of obtaining accurate, evidenced intelligence. ODM Legal Services provides professional covert surveillance services for corporate clients, insurers, and legal professionals who require verified, first-hand evidence of activity or behaviour.
Our covert observation teams are experienced, discreet, and trained to operate in a wide range of environments — from urban commercial settings to residential and rural locations. We provide static and mobile surveillance, producing contemporaneous logs, photographic evidence, and video footage where appropriate.
All surveillance operations are planned and conducted in strict accordance with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), the Human Rights Act 1998, and applicable data protection legislation. Evidence gathered by our teams is documented to the standard required for use in legal and insurance proceedings.
Background Profiling
Thorough identity and history verification for individuals and entities.
Knowing who you are dealing with is fundamental to protecting your business. ODM Legal Services provides comprehensive background profiling services for corporate clients, legal professionals, and organisations that need verified intelligence on individuals or entities before engaging with them.
Our background profiling service covers identity verification, employment and education history, directorship and business interests, financial history, criminal record checks (where legally permissible), adverse media screening, and social media analysis. We tailor each profile to the specific requirements of the client and the nature of the engagement.
Background profiling is particularly valuable in pre-employment screening, partner vetting, supplier due diligence, and litigation support. All profiling work is conducted in compliance with applicable legislation and delivered in a structured, confidential report.
OSINT Profiling
Deep open-source intelligence gathering using specialist investigative software.
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become one of the most powerful tools available to corporate investigators. ODM Legal Services employs specialist OSINT methodologies and premium investigative software to surface intelligence from publicly available sources that would be impossible to locate through conventional research alone.
We subscribe to and operate industry-leading OSINT platforms including Maltego — the gold standard for link analysis and data visualisation — and Social Links, a specialist tool that aggregates and analyses data across social media networks, the open web, and the dark web. These platforms allow our investigators to map relationships between individuals, entities, and digital identities; trace online activity; identify aliases and associated accounts; and uncover connections that would otherwise remain hidden.
OSINT profiling is particularly valuable in fraud investigations, pre-litigation intelligence gathering, due diligence on high-risk individuals, asset tracing with a digital dimension, and reputational risk assessments. All OSINT work is conducted in strict compliance with GDPR, the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and applicable data protection legislation. Findings are delivered in a structured intelligence report, with source attribution and methodology documented to the standard required for legal proceedings.
Process Serving
Efficient, reliable legal document serving across the UK.
Effective service of legal documents is a critical step in many legal proceedings. ODM Legal Services provides a professional process serving service for law firms, solicitors, and individuals who require reliable, evidenced service of court documents, statutory demands, injunctions, and other legal notices.
Our process servers operate across the UK, with the capability to serve documents at residential, commercial, and business addresses. We provide prompt, discreet service and produce a sworn affidavit or certificate of service upon completion, providing the evidential record required by the courts.
Where personal service proves difficult — due to evasion or an inability to locate the recipient — our investigators can combine process serving with tracing and surveillance capabilities to ensure that service is effected efficiently and in accordance with the relevant procedural rules.
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